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Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Once, Became, Total, Liberating

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

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Bad, Always, Idea, Fictional

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

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Buildings, Equivalent, Guess, Parachute

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Reason, Making, Last, Rectify

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Want, Big, Box, Billboard

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Think, Release, I Think, Discomfort

I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.

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Prepare, I Think, Very, Overrated

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

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Feel, I Feel Like, Your, Wooden

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

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Enjoy, More, Around, Banging

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

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Tell, I Think, Hundred, Applause

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

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Call, Could, Guess, Unconventional

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

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Jealous, See, Wide, Child Actors

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Questions, Doing, Asking, Table

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

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Bike, Years, Eight, Whoa

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

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Play, Always, Knock, Redeeming

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Words, Me, Hard, Feelings

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

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Matter, Away, Been, Sarcastic

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Generation, Think, Always, Hip-Hop

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Believe, Enemy, Always, Hip-Hop

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Death, Doing, Set, Bored

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

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Movie, Other, Based, Conversation

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Doing, Some, TV, Spots

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Think, Star, Movie, Notice

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

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Stupid, Think, Say, Laughing

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

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More, Going, Made, Not Knowing

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Big, Country, About, Bowie

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

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Year, Other, Supportive, Apart

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Some, Nobility, Films, Heroism

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Doing, Think, Human Being, Talk Shows

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

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Single, Know, Person, Conflict

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